Maracas craft for kids

Super cute DIY Maracas are a fun musical instrument craft for kids of all ages. Use these homemade musical instruemnts as a fun craft or music activity !

In this easy DIY maracas craft, you'll learn how to make your own musical instruments with inexpensive items and in less than 30 minutes with your little one! Step by step instruct

Kids will love to make these paper bag maracas or noise makers that are perfect for Cinco de Mayo, New Year's, a birthday party, and even a football game!

We are super HAPPY to be joining up with Made with HAPPY as part of the Kids Crafts from Around the World series! If you haven’t taken a minute to check it out yet, be sure to hop over to see all of the other fun globally inspired crafts for kids! My boys love anything...

I have the cutest little 4 some tap number called Shake It that I choreographed for competition. It's to Gloria Estevan's Conga! We had these nice brown plastic maracas that we had been using for months, but of course one of the kids dropped and broke it a mere week before the first cometition. {sigh} Miss Crafty McCrafterson to the rescue!!! Dadadadaaaaaa!!!! I convinced my friend J to come help me since her daughter is in this group and was a large contributer to the death of the original…

How to make a shaker. Easy cardboard tube shaker craft for preschoolers which becomes a fun musical instrument they can play and dance with!

Get musical with your preschoolers with this fun make and play craft!

Ready for April showers? For us spring means getting back to playing outdoors. This is very welcomed after months of cold weather in the winter. April can also bring plenty of rainy days indoors too. Today I'm sharing an easy rainy day craft for kids: easy paper plate instruments. You probably have all of the supplies already, so it's a good last minute activity if the kids are stuck inside this spring. Then, if the instruments get too noisy, hope for sunshine so you can send "the band"…

Shake it out! What could be more fun than making great noise-making maracas from simple paper lunch bags and rice? This timeless idea is fun for all ages. Paper crafts Very Easy 4 paper lunch bags One handful of dried rice 12" square piece of foil Rubber band Paint: red, green, white, yellow 8" x 1" strip of red felt Tape Nest three of the four paper bags inside each other. The last bag will be used to make the handle. Place your hand in the center of the foil square and loosely gather it up…

Kids will love this fun and easy Cinco de Mayo craft. Use paper or Styrofoam cups and beans/rice to make musical maracas.What you will need:- 2 Styrofoa…